TRon

Wrong, 10s of thousands of people over the course of the club's history have put substantial amounts of their own money into the club - THE FANS. AS for your other comments, great, so its the fans' fault for all this eh. No-one's wish has been granted, a well run club on and off the pitch with a team and manager we can relate to and talk about. That I believe is the real kind of wish we all hoped for, no? Well put HTT. The fans wanted him out and they are the customers so they are right. Now we need to put our concerted efforts into demanding a mega-billionaire buys the club and appoints a manager we can relate to.

This will probably go over the heads of a fair few, but it might make any new owner think twice about ploughing money into a club where he'll be treading on eggshells in case the fans turn and his investment turns to shite. It will need an owner with a big transfer kitty available every year to start with.

Shame he can't watch the matches with his kids any more on a personal note. Other than that I am concerned how the club will be run until we get another buyer. Are the cockney mafia still going to be putting 100% into unearthing new talent when they know they are despised and living on borrowed time?

Another example of the True Faith and Mag fanzines failure to think through the consequences of their call to arms.

There's always going to be an underlying hatred for Ashley though, just ready to bubble up as soon as we hit a rocky patch. I don't see how we can operate like this long term. Best if he just sells up and fucks off imo.

It doesn't mean he'll do it again, when he walked over funds last time he'd been promised that he'd get money which wasn't handed over. Can't imagine him being happy managing without major funds though. Keegan's only ever took club jobs where he's had access to some decent cash for transfers.

That just suggests his signings have been better this time round, added to the fact he took over a squad much better than the shit team he left at Birmingham. It doesn't necessarily mean he knows how to set out a side to play good football in particular.

Hmmm...according to Brian MackemNally in the Mirror, the price is £260m. No one's got a fucking clue in other words

Agree.

He looks a bit more than neat and tidy, he was looking to make quite incisive passes from what I saw, and isn't he supposed to have a few goals in him as well? My only reservation is how mobile is he? None of our central midfielders are particularly quick these days and it's a quality we badly miss.

It goes up £50m by the day. He's going to put the club up for sale this week at £350m according to the Sunday Mail.

Even if he did quit, at least the fans would be willing to give a new manager a chance if KK quit for no good reason. The only way for Ashley to go is to bring him, back, relegate Wise's role to a minor one, and give Keegan control of signings with a reasonable budget of around £20m or more and trust him to spend it wisely. We can't move on until Keegan's had his final fling.

I think that's a bit harsh. He's actually one of the few midfielders we've had in ages who actually passes and moves. Hardly a Gerrard I agree, but definitely an improvement to the squad.

To be honest, we had enough problems with injuries, I thought Hughton's selctions yesterday were appalling. With a midfield lacking legs to begin with, it just made the situation worse by playing Ameobi instead of starting with Gonzalez or Bassong.

Keegan seems to rate them, so as far as he's concerned, I don't think he'd find it a problem. Both have their uses, but like Shearer need players with legs around them.

5 players were bought for him (apparently), do you think Jonas, Coloccini, Xisco, etc. will see it that way? Are you implying that they would be offended by him resigning? If so, its a fair point, but the issue was with Nacho or Xisco and both did hold talks with him, Xisco spoke reasonably highly of him so... At the end of the day they are professionals but i truly believe the more influential memeber of the team - Given, Harper, Owen etc would of been gutted and slighlty resentful of the board for hs departure. Owen especially. has to be said aswell,in spite of everything,owen was fantastic today Owen was the best player by a mile, and I'm not even a fan usually.

Was Keegan after a central midfielder though? Guthrie was his buy, other than that, his main concern seemed to be keep Barton and buy a left back.

Why was he sat there by himself today?

Apologies to whichever wag thought that classic line up, it wasn't me but was there any significance in the fact hat: He was the one rumoured to have had the bust up with Keegan when KK resigned? He is the Ashley member with the least football knowledge so easily expendable? Llambias was sat by himself today to face the wrath of the crowd with no support from his backers?

wouldn't really disagree with that to a point, even though this is my thread bumped. A more relevant thread would be the 'rusty cogs in the engine room' but the search engine appears to be knackered so I ca'nt find it. Basically, not enough legs in midfield today.

We definitely should have made at least two more major signings, especially in midfield, so no it wasn't a success. I think people who are positive are referring to the likes of Coloccini, Jonas, Guthrie and Bassong being good additions. Hopefully the two new lads will settle in as well. The players you have mentioned there, not many of them would usually get a game but we had more than usual out through injury. I don't think any team has that sort of cover, other than Chelsea maybe. Not the best game to judge on.

As a coach and leader 100% yes, no one better. Dealing with transfers no. Which is of course how we got here in the first place.

I agree with you but until Keegan's had his shot, I'm just not sure our fans will give anyone else a fair crack of the whip.

That's three valuable points gone which we won't be able to get back. Unfortunately it has knocked our momentum and in the current atmosphere it might be hard to get it back. It's not the end of our season, but it might have a significant impact.

Yes, because until some of our fans get him out of our system it will be very hard to move on.